"piper" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpaɪ.pə/ [UK], /ˈpaɪ.pɚ/ [US], /ˈpʌɪ.pɚ/ [Canada] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-piper.wav [Southern-England] Forms: pipers [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe + -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|piper}} Middle English piper, {{m|enm|pipere}} pipere, {{suf|en|pipe|er}} pipe + -er, {{piecewise doublet|en|fifer}} Piecewise doublet of fifer Head templates: {{en-noun}} piper (plural pipers)
  1. A musician who plays a pipe. Categories (topical): People Translations (musician who plays a pipe): αὐλητής (aulētḗs) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), αὐλητρίς (aulētrís) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), زَمَّار (zammār) [masculine] (Arabic), свира́ч (sviráč) [masculine] (Bulgarian), huilunsoittaja (Finnish), säkkipillinsoittaja (Finnish), joueur de pipeau [masculine] (French), joueuse de pipeau [feminine] (French), αυλητής (avlitís) [masculine] (Greek), חֲלִילָן (khalilán) [masculine] (Hebrew), dudás (Hungarian), sípos (Hungarian), píobaire [masculine] (Irish), pifferaio [masculine] (Italian), دودوكجی (düdükçü) (Ottoman Turkish), flautista [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), fluierar [masculine] (Romanian), ду́дочник (dúdočnik) [masculine] (Russian), волы́нщик (volýnščik) (english: bagpipes) [masculine] (Russian), флейти́ст (flejtíst) (english: flautist) [masculine] (Russian), pìobair [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), фру̀ла̄ш [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), frùlāš [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ґа́йдар (gájdar) [masculine] (Ukrainian), дуда́р (dudár) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-piper-en-noun-zuYbvGZ5 Disambiguation of People: 15 0 42 4 35 0 4 Disambiguation of 'musician who plays a pipe': 95 2 0 1 2 0
  2. A bagpiper. Synonyms (bagpiper): bagpiper
    Sense id: en-piper-en-noun-v-SDnnLP Disambiguation of 'bagpiper': 2 74 0 4 19 1
  3. A baby pigeon. Categories (topical): People Synonyms (baby pigeon): squab, baby pigeon, pigeon chick
    Sense id: en-piper-en-noun-QczPIkqa Disambiguation of People: 15 0 42 4 35 0 4 Disambiguation of 'baby pigeon': 0 0 100 0 0 0
  4. A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
    Sense id: en-piper-en-noun-wFui5hMx
  5. A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts. Categories (topical): Musicians, People Categories (lifeform): Baby animals, Columbids, Horses, Scorpaeniform fish, Sea urchins
    Sense id: en-piper-en-noun-GT5ElxIV Disambiguation of Musicians: 19 15 15 10 36 3 2 Disambiguation of People: 15 0 42 4 35 0 4 Disambiguation of Baby animals: 3 15 13 14 48 4 4 Disambiguation of Columbids: 3 18 12 14 46 4 3 Disambiguation of Horses: 3 15 4 11 54 10 3 Disambiguation of Scorpaeniform fish: 2 21 2 15 53 4 2 Disambiguation of Sea urchins: 2 11 1 9 72 3 2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 22 2 19 47 4 3 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 7 21 7 13 45 7
  6. (slang, obsolete) A broken-winded hack horse. Tags: obsolete, slang
    Sense id: en-piper-en-noun-DejhiNC2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: drunk as a piper, hornpiper, pay the piper, Pied Piper, piper gurnard, uilleann piper, who pays the piper calls the tune Related terms: bagpiper, hornpiper
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Etymology templates: {{lena}} Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} piper
  1. Archaic form of pepper. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: pepper
    Sense id: en-piper-en-noun-nF5VHmQ2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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      "word": "Pied Piper"
    },
    {
      "word": "piper gurnard"
    },
    {
      "word": "uilleann piper"
    },
    {
      "word": "who pays the piper calls the tune"
    }
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        "2": "enm",
        "3": "piper"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English piper",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "pipere"
      },
      "expansion": "pipere",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pipe",
        "3": "er"
      },
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      "name": "suf"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fifer"
      },
      "expansion": "Piecewise doublet of fifer",
      "name": "piecewise doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe + -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pipers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "piper (plural pipers)",
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "bagpiper"
    },
    {
      "word": "hornpiper"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A musician who plays a pipe."
      ],
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        [
          "musician",
          "musician"
        ],
        [
          "pipe",
          "pipe"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2020 May 20, “Railway remembers VE Day with a series of tributes”, in Rail, page 15",
          "text": "At Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley, the sounding of train horns was followed by a lone piper playing When the Battle's Over.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A bagpiper."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bagpiper",
          "bagpiper"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A baby pigeon."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pigeon",
          "pigeon"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gurnard",
          "gurnard"
        ],
        [
          "opercular",
          "opercular"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sea urchin",
          "sea urchin"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A broken-winded hack horse."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "broken-winded",
          "broken-winded"
        ],
        [
          "hack",
          "hack"
        ],
        [
          "horse",
          "horse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, obsolete) A broken-winded hack horse."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpaɪ.pə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpaɪ.pɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpʌɪ.pɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪpə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-piper.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-piper.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-piper.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-piper.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-piper.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "bagpiper",
      "word": "bagpiper"
    },
    {
      "sense": "baby pigeon",
      "word": "squab"
    },
    {
      "sense": "baby pigeon",
      "word": "baby pigeon"
    },
    {
      "sense": "baby pigeon",
      "word": "pigeon chick"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "zammār",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "زَمَّار"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sviráč",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "свира́ч"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "word": "huilunsoittaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "word": "säkkipillinsoittaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "joueur de pipeau"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "joueuse de pipeau"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "avlitís",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "αυλητής"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "aulētḗs",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "αὐλητής"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "aulētrís",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αὐλητρίς"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "khalilán",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "חֲלִילָן"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "word": "dudás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "word": "sípos"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "píobaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pifferaio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "düdükçü",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "word": "دودوكجی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "flautista"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fluierar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dúdočnik",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ду́дочник"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "bagpipes",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "volýnščik",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "волы́нщик"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "flautist",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "flejtíst",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "флейти́ст"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pìobair"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "фру̀ла̄ш"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "frùlāš"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "gájdar",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ґа́йдар"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "dudár",
      "sense": "musician who plays a pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дуда́р"
    }
  ],
  "word": "piper"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
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    "Requests for attention in Latin etymologies",
    "en:Baby animals",
    "en:Columbids",
    "en:Horses",
    "en:Musicians",
    "en:People",
    "en:Scorpaeniform fish",
    "en:Sea urchins"
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  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "lena"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "piper",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "pepper"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English archaic forms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic form of pepper."
      ],
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          "pepper#English"
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        "archaic"
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    }
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}

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